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Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne? Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse. Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines. The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers. A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament. Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The less routine the more life. The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm. One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants. Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A work of real merit finds favor at last. A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: None can teach admirably if not loving his task. None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future. I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.. Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity. Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep. Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others. First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Our ideals are our better selves. Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds. Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's. One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train. No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness. Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought. Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Every sin provokes its punishment. Every sin provokes its punishment.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only. Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Man is a living liea bitter jest Upon himselfa conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence. Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Many can argue - not many converse. Many can argue - not many converse.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps. Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance. Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense. Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also. Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit. That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom. Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching. The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Geniusthe free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being. Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism. A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The less of routine, the more of life. The less of routine, the more of life.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women. A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott quotes: Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

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